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,J. H. WALL. LOADING DEVICE'FOR SHOE DIP'PING MACHINES. APPLICATIONTILED FEB. 10. 1920.

1,376,363. Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HENRY WALL, or BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND.

LOADING DEVICE FOR SHOE-DIPPING MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

Application filed February 10, 1920. Serial No. 357,627.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in loading devices for shoe dipping machines, and pertains more particularly to a loading device for use with he machine covered by Patent No. 1,282,- 503, issued October 22, 1918.

he primary object of the invention is to provide a loading device which allows the shoe bar carrying the shoes to be easily, quickly and accurately moved into position so as to permit the bar to be properly con nected to the shoe dipping mechanism.

The invention, briefly involves a loading device having tracks or guides onto which the shoe bar is placed and then slid to the outlet end of the device, which latter is positioned so as to register with the shoe clipping machine, whereby upon reaching the outlet the bar will gravitate, while guided by the operator to enter the head of the same dipping machine.

In the drawings:

Figure 1, is a side elevation, partly in section of the invention showing the shoe bar secured to the head of the dipping machine;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the bar dipped into the tank; and

Fig. 3, is a fragmentary perspective view, partly in section of the loading device.

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention uprights or vertical standards 1 .'are employed arranged on opposite sides of the dipping tank T, and which may be secured in any suitable manner so as to be rigidly sustained in the relation shown in the drawings.

Horizontal tracks or guides 2, are secured to the uprights 1, and are provided with vertical side flanges 3. the latter having their inner ends turned at right angles to provide stops 4. These stops are spaced from the rear ends of the guides 2, to thereby form outlets 5', for a purpose now to be described.

The shoe bars B, have the shoes attached thereto, and the head H, of the dipping mechanism is slotted at S, to receive the lowermost edge of the bar B, therein. In operation, the dipping mechanism is held by the operator, through the medium of the lever handle L, in the position shown in Fig. 1, with the mouth of the slot S facing upwardly and in register with the outlets whereupon the operator slides, by a pushing movement. the bar B, which'has been placed with its ends on the tracks 2 and with the shoes in the space between the tracks. This sliding of the bar B, brings the latter to the outlets 5-5, whereupon the bar through the action of gravity drops down through the outlets and is guidedby the operator to enter the'upwardly facing slots S, of the head H, of the clipping mechanism. The lever handle H, is then moved downwardly, to bring the parts into the dipping position depicted in Fig. 2, of the drawings.

The head H, has its slot so formed so that when same is in the position of Fig. 1, of the drawings, the slot will face upwardly toward the outlets 5-5, while the flanges 3, act to prevent endwise or longitudinal movement of the shoe bar when the latter is being slid on the tracks.

The device requires but little effort on the part of the operator, and thus renders it easy and quick to place the shoe bars in the head.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a shoe dipping mechanism including a head having an upwardly facing slot and horizontal tracks above the head having vertical side flanges and having vertical rear end parts bent inwardly from the side flanges to form end stops, the stops being spaced from the rear wardly facing slot, horizontal tracks above the head, and means associated with thetraeks for forming outlets for a shoe bar to allow the latter to gravitate downwardly to enter the slot.

4. In combination with a shoe dipping mechanism having a shoe bar receiving device, spaced means above the head to receive and allow the shoe bar ends to move therealong, said means being formed so as to allow the shoe bar to move downwardly and engage-the receiving device when the shoe bar registers with the latter.

In combination with a shoe dipping mechanism having a shoe bar receiving device, tracks above the device having outlets registering with the device, the tracks being spaced so that the operator may manually guide the shoe bar into the receiving device.

i 6. In combination with a shoe dipping mechanism having a shoe bar receiving device, means thereabove for supporting the bar to allow same to move toward the device and formed to allow the operator to two subscribing witnesses.

manually guide the shoe bar into the receiving device.

7. In combination with a shoe dipping mechanism having a shoe bar receiving device, a loading device associated therewith and including means to engage the shoe bar ends, said means being formed and arranged so that the operator may manually move the shoe bar therealong and manually guide same into the receiving device.

8. In combination with a shoe dipping mechanism having a shoe bar receiving deice, supporting means above the device formed to allow the operator to move the bar with the shoes thereon toward the device and to manually guide same into the receiving device.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to thisspecification in the presence of J HENRY WVALL.

Witnesses:

BESSIE P. TooMnY, J. A. MILLER. 

